Government: A Guide to Research Resources

• CQ Electronic Library Includes the resources CQ Researcher, Encyclopedia of the First Amendment and the Supreme Court Yearbook, among others.
   
• Oxford Bibliographies Online is a series of selective, discipline-focused, online guides to the essential literature in a subject.
   
• Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science offer introductions to topics and critical surveys of the current state of scholarship.

• HeinOnline is a digital collection of legal materials.
   
• LegalTrac indexes nearly 1,000 english-language legal publications.

Multidisciplinary Indexes

• Citation Indexes / Web of Science
   
• Google Scholar 
   
• JSTOR

Indexes in Related Disciplines

• America History & Life is the primary bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
   
• Historical Abstracts is a reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
   
• Econlit
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• Sociological Abstracts

Finding Books at Harvard

• HOLLIS
  • HOLLIS Help guide

Finding Books Beyond Harvard

• Borrow Direct - for books not currently available at Harvard. Submit a request and receive the book within 4 days. 
   
• Interlibrary Loan - for articles, books, etc. request to borrow it from a broader network of libraries.  
   
• Purchase request - for items you need added to the Library collection.

• ProQuest Congressional is a collection of legislative and executive publications.
   
• CQ Press Library
  • CQ Congress Collection
  • CQ Voting and Elections Collection
• Data.gov: The home of the U.S. Government's open data.
   
• LexisNexis State Capital provides access to the legislation and administrative law of all 50 states. 
   
• ProQuest Statistical Insight is a searchable database of statistical information from selected federal, state and international publications.

• Factiva is a database of over 8,000 business and news publications in over 20 languages.
   
• Nexis Uni features over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources.
   
• Politico Pro comprehensive database providing legislative and regulatory insights for policy research.
   
• National Journal is a collection of resources on U.S.politics and policy, including Hotline and Race Tracker.
   
• Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive database of publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
   
• Alt-PressWatch provides access to newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
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• ClimateWire is a daily environmental newswire. Includes access to Greenwire and Energywire.

• Harvard Library Research Guides
   
• Public Opionion Data Resources
   
• U.S. Census Data Resources
   
• U.S. Presidential Documents
   
• Beginner's Guide to Locating and Using Numeric Data
   
• Data Management